The Blood of the Nation 



sumed divine right. Dr. Zumpt says : 

 " Government, having assumed godhead, 

 took at the same time the appurtenances 

 of it. Officials multiplied. Subjects 

 lost their rights. Abject fear paralyzed 

 the people, and those that ruled were 

 intoxicated with insolence and cruelty." 



" The Emperor," says Professor See- 

 ley, " possessed in the army an over- 

 whelming force, over which citizens 

 had no influence, which was totally 

 deaf to reason or eloquence, which had 

 no patriotism because it had no coun- 

 try, which had no humanity because it 

 had no domestic ties." " There runs 

 through Roman literature a brigand's 

 and a barbarian's contempt for honest 

 industry." " The worst government is 

 that which is most worshipped as 

 divine." 



So runs the word of the historian. 

 The elements are not hard to find, 

 extinction of manly blood, extinction 



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